In an effort to get more women involved in FOSS, the Debian Project will be
participating in the GNOME Foundation's
Outreach
Program for Women (OPW), which is an internship program similar to Google's
Summer of Code.
Unlike the Google program, OPW does not require participants to be students,
and as well as coding projects it can also cover non-coding tasks such as
translation, graphic design, documentation, bug triage and
marketing.
In order to aid this effort, one of Debian's generous sponsors has offered to
start a matching fund in USD to fund Debian's participation in OPW.
For details, and to give a donation, please see
our Donate now page.
Please do think about getting involved and sharing your ideas with us, to help
us make OPW an even more useful program for Debian in the future.
If you wish to apply as an intern participant, please review the available
coding
and
non-coding
internships and follow
the instructions for
application.

Royal Pingdom published an article about
the technology behind Aftonbladet.se,
the main online component of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
With its 3 million unique visitors and 15 TB of traffic each day, Aftonbladet is the
biggest website in Sweden.
For its infrastructure, Aftonbladet uses Debian on its servers, with MySQL
and Tomcat.

Niels Thykier, on behalf of the Release Team,
announced
that autoremoval of packages with release-critical bugs has been activated in
the testing suite:
if a non-key
package suffers from a bug considered as critical for the release in testing
and unstable suites, and this bug hasn't seen any activity for 14 days, it will
be automatically marked for removal from the testing suite.

Paul Sarbinowski published on
Google
Play Store and
F-Droid
the Android application he has been developing during the Google
Summer of Code: DebianDroid. With this application, you can track packages and bugs, or look
at some Ultimate Debian Database queries.

Steve McIntyre announced
a few details about the organisation of the Mini DebConf to be held in
Cambridge, UK on November 14-17. For further information and to sign up to attend, please
visit the dedicated page
on the Debian wiki.

Do you want to organise a Debian booth or a Debian install party?
Are you aware of other upcoming Debian-related events?
Have you delivered a Debian talk that you want to link on our
talks page?
Send an email to the Debian Events Team.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security
advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about
security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please
subscribe to the security mailing
list (and the separate backports
list, and stable updates
list) for announcements.

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